The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c10.12

c10.12

When we turn next to study the circumstances of Śrīmāra’s success at Kuḍamūkku, we get some light from the Pallava records of the period. Two facts are established beyond the range of doubt. *First*, Kuḍamūkku is Kumbakonam as this name is given to the place in a record of the eighth year of Mārañjaḍayan, most probably, Śrīmāra’s famous father. *Second*, the Pāṇḍya power was in this period fairly well established in the heart of the Tanjore district though there were frequent conflicts with Pallava forces across a shifting frontier in this direction,¹ the permanence of the Pāṇḍya occupation of this territory being shown by the presence of many Pāṇḍya inscriptions of this period in several places in the Tanjore district. From the provenance of the inscriptions of Nandivarman III it seems to be a reasonable inference that this contest continued through his reign with varying fortune. It seems not unlikely that the famous fight from which Nandi came to be known as Teḷḷaṟerinda Nandi occurred in the course of these